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UC San Diego Health System Successfully Completes Region’s First Robotic Gastrectomy

Surgeons at UC San Diego Health System have performed the region’s first robotic gastrectomy, a potentially lifesaving procedure to remove a section of the stomach after a diagnosis of gastric cancer. Aided by a da Vinci robot, surgeons remove the diseased tissue, perform a delicate reconstruction and remove local lymph nodes for further testing.

3 Oct 2013

Two Patients Amazed with Recovery Time after Undergoing a Robotic Hysterectomy Procedure at Sydney's Westmead Private Hospital

Two patients who underwent Australia’s first ever single site, robotic hysterectomy procedure at Sydney’s Westmead Private Hospital have been left amazed by their results, with both being discharged within 24 hours...

1 Oct 2013

Robotic and Conventional Open-Chest Mitral Valve Repair Surgery Have Similar Total Costs

The total hospital cost of mitral valve repair surgery — from the time a patient is admitted to the hospital until release — is similar, whether performed through small port incisions using robotic equipment or via the conventional open-chest method, a Mayo Clinic study of 370 patients found.

1 Oct 2013

Surgeons on Call to Discuss Robotic Surgery for Prostate Cancer

If you’re covering Dr. Drew’s announcement that he underwent robotic surgery to remove his prostate after he learned he had cancer, Penn Medicine’s urologists, including David I. Lee, MD, chief of the division of Urology at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, who has performed more than 3,700 robotic prostatectomies, and Thomas J. Guzzo MD, MPH, who performs this procedure and many other robotic surgery techniques for urinary problems at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, are on call to discuss this popular procedure.

26 Sep 2013

ARGO Partners with YASKAWA for Global Expansion of ReWalk Exoskeleton

ARGO Medical Technologies has partnered with innovative robotics experts YASKAWA Electric Corporation as it continues the global expansion of its ReWalk exoskeleton device which enables individuals with lower limb disabilities such as paraplegia to walk.

26 Sep 2013

Stryker to Acquire MAKO Surgical

MAKO Surgical Corp. today announced a definitive agreement with Stryker Corporation, by which Stryker will acquire all of the outstanding shares of MAKO for $30.00 per share in cash, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $1.65 billion.

26 Sep 2013

URMC Awards Health Robotics Contract for Largest Implementation of Sterile Compounding Automation

Health Robotics announced that University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) awarded the company a contract to become the largest implementation of Sterile Compounding Automation in the world, including 5 Robots [4 i.v.STATIONs and 1 i.v.STATION ONCO], and complemented by 23 i.v.SOFT workflow applications.

24 Sep 2013

Rice Students Build Robotic Arm for 17-Year Old with Brittle Bones

It was a big day for Dee Faught when a team of Rice University students gave him a helping hand. In fact, they gave him a whole arm.

24 Sep 2013

Intuitive Surgical Receives Expanded Clearance for da Vinci Fluorescence Imaging Vision System in Robotic-Assisted Surgery

Intuitive Surgical, Inc., the global leader in minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery, today announced it received FDA 510(k) clearance for expanded use of its da Vinci® Fluorescence Imaging Vision System (Firefly™) for the da Vinci® Surgical System. Firefly imaging can now be used during gallbladder surgery.

From Intuitive Surgical, Inc. 24 Sep 2013

CIVCO to Demonstrate its Motion Management Robotic Solutions at ASTRO 2013

CIVCO Medical Solutions, the leading provider of radiation oncology motion management solutions, is pleased to demonstrate integration (510(k) pending) between the Protura™ Robotic Patient Positioning System and Varian's Clinac® iX and Trilogy® medical linear accelerators via the Varian Motion Management Interface at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Sept. 22-24, booth #1826.

21 Sep 2013

Medical Robotics News

UC San Diego Health System Successfully Completes Region’s First Robotic Gastrectomy

Two Patients Amazed with Recovery Time after Undergoing a Robotic Hysterectomy Procedure at Sydney's Westmead Private Hospital

Robotic and Conventional Open-Chest Mitral Valve Repair Surgery Have Similar Total Costs

Surgeons on Call to Discuss Robotic Surgery for Prostate Cancer

ARGO Partners with YASKAWA for Global Expansion of ReWalk Exoskeleton

Stryker to Acquire MAKO Surgical

URMC Awards Health Robotics Contract for Largest Implementation of Sterile Compounding Automation

Rice Students Build Robotic Arm for 17-Year Old with Brittle Bones

Intuitive Surgical Receives Expanded Clearance for da Vinci Fluorescence Imaging Vision System in Robotic-Assisted Surgery

CIVCO to Demonstrate its Motion Management Robotic Solutions at ASTRO 2013

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